Generally Impressed With Riffs
[Album artwork by James Koehnline] As much as I love and appreciate the fact that my metal foundation was fortified by growing up alongside the genre in the ‘80s as a youth, I owe a great deal of my undying …
[Cover art by Fenomeno Design] Did you know that Chile is pretty darn good at death metal? If not, you must be new around these parts, in which case, I say, welcome friend! We’re glad to have you here and …
It’s a magical corner of the musical world where a band can combine an infectious nature with extreme oddness, and it’s in that corner that Idaho’s Seven Chains makes their home. Make no mistake about it, third album Swollen, In …
[Cover art by Claudio Elias Scialabba] Italy’s Into Darkness has been a band for approximately 15 years but is just now releasing its first full length album, Route to the Other Side, but all that time has been greatly beneficial …
On May 16, 2010, Ronnie James Dio passed away after a long battle with stomach cancer. He was sixty-seven years old. It goes without saying that the man was an absolute legend in the realm …
Savatage was a huge part of my formative days—Hall Of The Mountain King, Gutter Ballet and Streets were all huge records for Younger Me. As the ‘Tage went on, even with the departure of one Oliva …
originally written by Jim Brandon There comes a point where similarity becomes an almost impossible distraction to ignore. I’ve listened to Paradogma more times than I can count, and every single time the damn thing …
Somewhere out in the nebulous immensity of the cosmos, directly on the curve between fabrication and factuality, floats a land inhabited by the peculiar cerebral offspring of the three eccentrics who make up Deutschland’s purveyors …
originally written by Erik Thomas I’m not quite sure how to classify this new project from Wetnurse’s Garett Bussanick. It’s not as chaotic as labelmates Imbroglio, but still discordant and grey. It’s not as progressive as Wetnurse, but has …
originally written by Erik Thomas So, here’s a palette cleanser, the third album from Sweden’s death metal machine Aeon. After breaking out with their Metal Blade debut, Rise to Dominate, the band has taken three years to unleash …
Originally written by Ian Chainey What a pain in the dick this review has been. By the time this hits your eyes, Dreaming Saturn will have been out for, shit, months? A hundred terrible albums …
It’s not a particularly radical notion that this latest incarnation of Exodus has become something of a polarizing outfit. While no one can deny the band’s historical impact, since the second departure of their second classic vocalist …
